Houses
Mabel A. Hewit (American, 1903-1984)
Date:
c. 1936
Medium:
color woodcut
Collection:
Prints [1]
Dimensions:
Sheet - h:33.70 w:43.70 cm (h:13 1/4 w:17 3/16 inches)
Image - h:23.50 w:35.00 cm (h:9 1/4 w:13 3/4 inches)
Credit Line:
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Jurey in memory of Mabel A. Hewit
Accession Number:
2003.366
Gallery ID:
not on view
Before a woodblock can be carved, the board is usually planed, scraped, and possibly sanded to make it smooth. The surface is not always prepared properly, however, and in Houses the shallow, evenly spaced, parallel vertical ripple marks made in the wood by a machine planer transferred to the paper upon printing and are particularly evident in the sky.
Inscription:
lower left margin, in graphite: Houses; lower right margin, in graphite: Mabel A. Hewit; lower left margin corner, in graphite: #1; inscribed, lower right margin corner, in graphite: 29 [This is inscribed by William Jurey]